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Almost all 911 and Boxster/Caymans are MacPherson strut suspension.  Porsche's two door cars is the only expensive cars in the world that are equipped with a MacPherson strut suspension.  Generally, all expensive cars have a double-wishbone front suspension.  All the expensive car brands; Ferrari, Lamborghini, Rolls-ROyce, Bentley, Maserati, Aston Martin, all use the better architecture with double wishbone.  Porsche is unique in this regard to be the only one with this unusual suspension.  Double wishbone maximizes your tire contact patch (i.e. your grip) on off-camber corners.  That's because it's double jointed both at the bottom and at the top, so it can articulate the wheel/tire in a broader range.  A single wishbone suspension (aka MacPherson Strut) isn't able to articulate the wheel/tire in an off-camber corner and thus depending on how bad the road is built, as little as 50% of the tire is touching the ground.  

Porsche's halo products like 959, Carrera GT, 928 (more of a flagship than a halo product), and 918 have always had the double wishbone.  And Porsche is now slowly adding the Double Wishbone into their 2-door car line up.  All the SUVs, Taycan, and Panamera sedans have always had the double wishbone suspension.  

I am also very keen and excited for the electric Porsche two door sports car.  This sounds extremely promising and I personally would find this much more exciting than a petrol 911; due to the immediacy, response, consistency, and precision of an electric powertrain.  True, sound of a petrol engine does give a lot of emotion and an EV doesn't have that.  But the technical consistency and repeatability of a Porsche EV is something I would really appreciate.  The car is no longer the variable.  Thus, only the tires (tire behavior changes every half hour or so as the car is driven aggressively), the road temperature, and the driver are the remaining variables.  Thus, boiling down to fewer excuses!  

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